Adversity Quote by Jean Hanff Korelitz

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.

— Dave Dravecky

I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters…

— Kevin Spacey

I'm fascinated by characters who are faced with big losses and have to put their lives back together again.

— Peter Heller

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over…

— Angela Kinsey

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

In a way, the characters often do take over.

— Margaret Mahy

In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions.

— Emily Giffin

We aren't always comfortable witnessing real frailty or vulnerability in our heroines, but I like characters who struggle, and doubt, and who don't always…

— Leigh Bardugo

A lot of my characters are born out of a small grain in a person that I heighten and take to that next level.…

— Lauren Lapkus

I'm always trying to get my characters to the point of complete rebelliousness. I like that attitude that characters feel when they own their…

— Sebastian Lelio

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even…

— Robert Aldrich

The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

— J. Michael Straczynski